Minister of the Negev, the Galilee, and National Security Yitzhak Wasserlauf ('Otzma Yehudit') spoke yesterday in the Knesset plenum against "discrimination in granting land concessions to Jews". According to him, only Bedouin, Druze, or Arab soldiers are entitled to a 90 percent discount on the land. In a conversation today (Thursday) with Ben Caspit and Vinon Magal on their show on 103FM, he commented on things.
As for the Zionist law, he explained: "First of all, it's not a law, it's a government decision. It's a proposal we made to the government. Today there is an anti-settlement policy in all planning institutions, and we want to change it. When I want to establish a settlement these days, I'm told, 'It's not economic, Not profitable, goes against the open spaces', and we don't understand that there is value in seizing land, in establishing settlements. Another thing, I want to expand an existing settlement today, so I have restrictions. Arabs and Bedouins are being marketed all day for residential land, and what is happening is that we have already lost the Jewish majority In the Galilee, and it's getting worse," he claimed.
He continued to say on the same topic: "The main point is that currently there is a reality that discharged soldiers receive benefits, and Jews do not have this benefit. A Bedouin, Druze, soldier who is released from the army receives a 90 percent discount on the land. Why is this not valid for Jews? Why am I second class when we Coming to state land? The scope of residential construction is derived first and foremost from the outline plan that is approved for residential use. The planning policies give absolute priority to residential planning in settlements in the Arab society. In the rural settlement they do not build, because they are not approved, because the acceptance committees block them. We want to change that. I want a new policy, for Zionism to be a decisive value. I am in contact with the heads of Druze, Bedouin, Arab authorities, I am not going to harm them in any plans. I invest in them, in youth villages, students, give them incentives, a basket of issues of community resilience. Menachem Begin In the 1980s he understood the problem and established the plan to quickly establish dozens of settlements in the Galilee, today I can't do that. I sit in the planning committees, hear exactly what the officials say, and this is the tool I use to implement our policy."
In conclusion, Minister Wasserlauf referred to the news that the government rejected the establishment of a secure emergency room in Sderot: "We will make sure it happens, we will bring the money that is missing, we will make sure of it. We know how to give it, and we will give it. Without populism. You can't come and attack me and say no I care about the residents of Sderot, I gave them millions in coordination with the mayor."
Assisted in the preparation of the article: Shani Romano 103FM
